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	Colin Maclaurin - LoveToKnow 1911
		COLIN MACLAURIN (1698-1746), Scottish mathematician, was the son of a clergyman, and born at Kilmodan, Argyllshire.
		Maclaurin's object was to found the doctrine of fluxions on geometrical demonstration, and thus to answer all objections to its method as being founded on false reasoning and full of mystery.
		Maclaurin was married in 1733 to Anne, daughter of Walter Stewart, solicitorgeneral for Scotland.
	2.1911encyclopedia.org /Colin_Maclaurin (948 words)

	Colin Maclaurin (1698 - 1746)
		Maclaurin took an active part in opposing the advance of the Young Pretender in 1745; on the approach of the Highlanders he fled to York, but the exposure in the trenches at Edinburgh and the privations he endured in his escape proved fatal to him.
		Maclaurin also shewed that a spheroid was a possible form of equilibrium of a mass of homogeneous liquid rotating about an axis passing through its centre of mass.
		Maclaurin was one of the most able mathematicians of the eighteenth century, but his influence on the progress of British mathematics was on the whole unfortunate.
	www.maths.tcd.ie /pub/HistMath/People/Maclaurin/RouseBall/RB_Maclaurin.html (1049 words)

	Colin Maclaurin - LoveToKnow 1911
		COLIN MACLAURIN (1698-1746), Scottish mathematician, was the son of a clergyman, and born at Kilmodan, Argyllshire.
		Maclaurin's object was to found the doctrine of fluxions on geometrical demonstration, and thus to answer all objections to its method as being founded on false reasoning and full of mystery.
		Maclaurin was married in 1733 to Anne, daughter of Walter Stewart, solicitorgeneral for Scotland.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Colin_Maclaurin (948 words)

	Maclaurin biography
		Colin was the youngest of three sons, the oldest being John, while the second was Daniel who died at a young age.
		Colin Maclaurin's mother inherited a small estate in Argyllshire and it was on the estate that Colin spent the early years of his life.
		Maclaurin had already shown himself a very strong advocate of the mathematical and physical ideas of Newton, so it was natural that they should meet during Maclaurin's visit to London.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Maclaurin.html (2510 words)

	Colin Maclaurin
		Colin Maclaurin's parents died when he was young, so he and his brother were brought up by an uncle who was a minister.
		Maclaurin himself acted as one of the two secretaries of this expanded Society and at the monthly meetings he often read a paper of his own or a letter from a foreign scientist on the latest developments in some topic of current interest.
		Maclaurin appealed to the geometrical methods of the ancient Greeks and to Archimedes' method of exhaustion in attempting to put Newton's calculus on a rigorous footing.
	www.stetson.edu /~efriedma/periodictable/html/Mg.html (720 words)

	Maclaurin biography
		Colin was the youngest of three sons, the oldest being John, while the second was Daniel who died at a young age.
		Colin Maclaurin's mother inherited a small estate in Argyllshire and it was on the estate that Colin spent the early years of his life.
		Maclaurin had already shown himself a very strong advocate of the mathematical and physical ideas of Newton, so it was natural that they should meet during Maclaurin's visit to London.
	www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /Biographies/Maclaurin.html (2510 words)

	Significant Scots - Colin MacLaurin
		MACLAURIN, COLIN, an eminent mathematician and philosopher, was descended from an ancient and respectable family, which had long been in possession of the island of Tiree, a solitary but comparatively fertile member of the Hebridean range.
		Maclaurin having procured a proper person to fill his place for a time at the college of Aberdeen, and feeling a strong desire to gratify his curiosity by visiting foreign countries, he accordingly with his friend and scholar set out for France, and proceeded at once to the capital, where they took up their abode.
		Colin Maclaurin was not only distinguished by his great genius and learning but by the qualities of his heart, his universal benevolence, and unaffected piety.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/other/maclaurin_colin.htm (3698 words)

	Colin Maclaurin (1698 - 1746) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Maclaurin took an active part in opposing the advance of the Young Pretender in 1745; on the approach of the Highlanders he fled to York, but the exposure in the trenches at Edinburgh and the privations he endured in his escape proved fatal to him.
		Maclaurin also shewed that a spheroid was a possible form of equilibrium of a mass of homogeneous liquid rotating about an axis passing through its centre of mass.
		Maclaurin was one of the most able mathematicians of the eighteenth century, but his influence on the progress of British mathematics was on the whole unfortunate.
	maths.tcd.ie /pub/HistMath/People/Maclaurin/RouseBall/RB_Maclaurin.html (1049 words)

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